- Robot type
- Drone · Defense
- Location
- IrvineCaliforniaUSA
- Job type
- Product
- Posted
- Aug 21, 2026
Software Technical Program Manager
Job description
The Air Defense team builds robots that find other robots and knock them out of the sky. At a time when air superiority can no longer be taken for granted, the Air Defense team provides mission critical capabilities to warfighters. From detection to tracking, identification, deterrence, and defeat, our family of networked sensors and effectors enables our customers to rapidly close the kill chain against a broad range of UAS threats. Working across product, engineering, business development, logistics, operations, and mission success, the Air Defense team develops, tests, deploys, and sustains the Anduril Air Defense Family of Systems in challenging operational environments worldwide.
Job responsibilities
- Stakeholder Engagement: Build and maintain relationships with internal stakeholders, external clients, and industry partners to gather insights, align objectives, and secure buy-in for strategic initiatives.
- Technical Ownership: Drive technical outcomes through meticulous understanding of system performance, managing incident response and after-action, using metrics to derive insights into areas for improvement,…
- Strategic Planning and Execution: Translate strategic business goals into actionable project plans, setting clear milestones, and driving initiatives from conception through to successful completion, ensuring they…
- Execute Autonomously: Autonomously execute on broad and/or ambiguous requirements from external clients. Demonstrate high ownership on all pieces of work. Become a trusted partner to Anduril’s engineers.
- Enable Cross Team Collaboration: Manage, unblock, and accelerate cross-team projects spanning multiple teams and initiatives.
- Shape Growth Opportunities: Support the drafting of technical proposals, ensuring that potential projects and scaling opportunities with each account are accurately scoped, resourced, and aligned with the…
Job requirements
- Proven customer-facing technical program management and/or systems engineering experience, preferably in the defense, national security, or aerospace domains
- 7+ years of experience leading a technical team of peers to field hardware or software products to real operating environments
- Solid technical aptitude and an ability to understand technical designs, software development lifecycle, challenges and risks; ability to work closely and effectively with engineering teams.
- Ability to work with internal and external stakeholders, across a wide range of technical comfort
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Must be able to obtain a Secret Clearance.
- Must be able to travel up to 50% of the time
- Bachelor of Science degree in engineering, computer science, or related field preferred
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